Life and Love

Devoted attention. I can’t be anywhere else. All my plans fall into her wake, her rhythm. It takes less than a moment for us to find us. We hadn’t been together in three months, but we are always together. All these years….

My grandmother’s grandparents ( or something like that ) come from a farm at the edge of nowhere. I went to visit once, six hours north of Chicago. Standing out front, an expanse of open nothingness as far as I…

We stepped off the 20+ hour plane ride and I didn’t even wait till we had a good night sleep, I immediately tried to get her to notice things. She’d be looking somewhere else, and I wanted her to see everything I…

I’ve called how many places home? Thirty? I’ve helped how many people find a home? Ten thousand? I’m in my third home alone. The first I don’t count, it was more of a hotel room than a home, although I…

My friend and I have set out to establish a set of daily practices to work on our pride and ego. While we recognize the importance and strategic power of ego, we also each feel trapped by its ugliness, its…

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos– condition our vision of those…

The first person I ever knew with Aids was 37 years old. Still yet I’ve not met another person so courageous. Our national awareness didn’t rise in time for him. Back in the day, I did a research project on…

Hate is knocking on our doorsteps. It’s begging to be let in. Even when you turn it away, hate finds ways to seep into our homes, our clothes, our bodies, our very bones. Hate for the choices of others. Hate…